A genetic classification of carbonate pl
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Dan Bosence
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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This paper reassesses the usefulness of the morphological classification of carbonate platforms into rimmed shelves and ramps. Whilst the existing classifications have value in describing platform margin morphology at any one time, the terms rimmed-shelf and ramp are less successful at categorising